Huda Hassan is a writer and cultural critic
Huda Hassan is an award-winning cultural writer, critic, and producer whose work explores cities, memory, and popular culture. A columnist for CBC Arts, she has written for New York Magazine, The Globe & Mail, and Pitchfork, and is a recipient of the National Magazine’s Digital Publishing Award. She has produced for CBC’s For The Culture and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University from 2022 to 2025.
Huda writes the newsletter Mother, Loosen My Tongue, and is at work on her first book, Children of the Snow, on the relationship between cities and grief (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin, 2027). A Schomburg fellow for her writing and research, she also serves as a juror for the National Magazine Awards, Polaris Music Prize, and SOCAN Songwriting Awards.
Raised in Toronto’s east end, she has lived in Montreal and now lives in Brooklyn. Huda is represented by Ron Eckel (Cooke McDermid)
Recent writing and criticism:
For Acacia Magazine, on how African seafarers carried a scent across oceans and into Harlem’s streets: https://www.acaciamag.com/issue-04/tracing-somali-rose
For CBC Commotion, culture critics Huda Hassan, Jay Smooth, and Louise Bruton discuss Robyn and Raye's new music and Jack Harlow's latest controversial remarks
For CBC Commotion, culture critics Huda Hassan, Pablo The Don, and Matt Amha on why everyone's so excited about the new Clipse album, Let God Sort Em Out
For New York Magazine, a feature on grandparents fighting against book bans